Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0’

Readers In Browsers

Posted: November 19, 2010 in Web 2.0
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I found two great RSS readers in Firefox and Internet Exporer. I would not have known they were there but for doing what my father always called piddling around. I was looking at an RSS feed inside of Firefox. I always liked how useful Firefox was in viewing the content of a feed.

Google Wave Lives On, Sort Of?

Posted: September 3, 2010 in Google
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Google has announced despite there recent demise of the Google app Wave they would now let it be open-source and allow anyone to run  the application on a server of their own. This experience would not be the same as the original Google app. It will not be the same universal application experience as before. [...]

Edit Video Online

Posted: September 3, 2010 in Web 2.0
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JayCut is a an online video editor. You may ask, “Why would you use an online video editor?” The answer is for power. I have a relatively slow computer. Editing video does not require a powerful machine but rendering the video after editing requires an awful lot of computer (both CPU and RAM).

Windows Live Sync is a part of the Windows Live Essentials Beta. The old Live Sync would not sync to Skydrive, the new version will. There is one little problem. With a Skydrive account you get 25 GB of storage yet you can only sync 2GB. This seems silly to me. Is Microsoft afraid Skydrive [...]

If your like many of my friends your running a small business, organization or school. You know you  can’t afford to through money away on your IT management. You need a file server, MS Exchange server  and lots of complicated software.

I really like Skydrive Explorer. It creates a virtual folder so you can drag files into it but if you wished to use Skydrive to backup data automatically you are out of luck.

Qik

Posted: March 13, 2010 in Web 2.0
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Record, play, share, embed even stream live video with your mobile phone using Qik. Qik is a website and application that captures video with you phone to save share an view your videos from the Qik website or any site you embed the  the Qik embed code. The incredible thing about it is that you [...]

Gmail Tip

Posted: March 9, 2010 in Google
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The email from all of my account goes to Gmail so I have to go to different sites or open and email program. I go to Gmail and it’s all there.  See Lifehacker. But that’s not the tip! Google does not check your POP account frequently so you may have your Gmail open but your [...]

LastPass

Posted: March 9, 2010 in Security
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I’m always saying use good passwords. Use upper and lower case letters and numbers. I do all of this but one has to have an algorithm to remember ones passwords. The problem is in order to use the password algorithm it has to be easy. Something you can do in your head. My algorithm is [...]

Evernote

Posted: February 26, 2010 in Web 2.0
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I known about and have used Evernote a little. Evernote is a web application that saves your text notes, photos, audio note and webpage clips in the cloud to use as reminders and help keep your life organized. I’ve got the phone application on my Nexus One. I’m going to use it more often.